Anyone know of any stories/novels where someone travelled into the past

[raccoon]

thinking they'd be happier there, life would be simpler, etc. But it didn't work out that way, because events in the past were different.

[opihimoimoi]

1. BTTF series...Fox, Lloyd.....

[raccoon]

2. Elucidate, my dear Watson. nt

[opihimoimoi]

10. Movie...Back to the Future series......Book: Contact, Carl sagan

[asdjrocky]

3. Time Enough for Love - Robert A. Heinlein

It's really a few books with the same main character, Lazarus Long, and he does some time traveling.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

9. I only know Lazarus Long from Number of the Beast

That part of the book gave me a headache, trying to follow the entropy arrows.

[izzie]

4. I love history but who in their right mind would want to go back?

Just the thoughts of what I had to do when polio hit and I was living in St. Louis with a small child would cure me of such thoughts. It was hot and you could not even take a child to a public swimming place. And those TB hospitals every place.

[Orrex]

5. Julian May's Pliocene Exile series

Distant past, but still the past...

[catnhatnh]

6. Michael Crichton-"Timeline"

Seems to be what you're looking for...Available in paperback...a small group travels back to medieval Europe.

[raccoon]

7. Read that one. A good read too. nt

[Orrex]

11. I really didn't care for the book, but please please please do yourself a favor

and DON'T see the movie. Incredibly bad.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

8. Isaac Asimov told a story

about a woman who said she would have liked to have lived in the late 1800s when people had servants to do the drudge work. Asimov pointed out to her that most likely, she would be one of the servants.

[Sequoia]

12. Somewhere in Time....The Time Machine

[petronius]

13. Poul Anderson - The Man Who Came Early

A young American soldier stationed in Reykjavík, Iceland finds himself mysteriously transported nearly a thousand years into the past. Gerald “Samsson” Roberts is befriended by Ospak Ulfsson and his family and soon discovers that his modern day skills don’t translate well to the 10th Century.

[raccoon]

14. Sounds interesting--I'll have to look into that. nt

[Forkboy]

15. Stephen Fry wrote a book called Making History that was along those lines.

It was about a student at Oxford who has a professor who makes a time machine. People themselves can't go back, but objects can. So they arrange to put a pill in the town water supply where Hitler was born that makes the people sterile, hence Hitler is never born. Sounds like a great idea, but things never go as planned.

It's a fantastic novel. Fry employs different styles throughout (one chapter is written as a screenplay, for instance).

Stephen Fry is a genius anyways, and this book shows why. There was a reason Fry worked with Hugh Laurie for so long. Fry is one of the only ones who can hold his own opposite Hugh (who also wrote a great novel, I might add). :)

[JitterbugPerfume]

16. Doomsday

by Connie Willis

They over shot the timeline and she arrved in the past just intime for the plague

uh oh

[raccoon]

17. Read that one, thanks. It was a good read. nt

[abluelady]

18. Doesn't Quite Meet the Criteria, but...

"The Little Book" by Seldon Edwards gives a little twist to time travel. It was a good read.

[Wickerman]

19. Ken Grimwood, Replay

is good.

Here is a thread you might like, if not already aware of:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=208&topic_id=8515

[raccoon]

21. Read REPLAY. Thanks for the link. nt

[tigereye]

20. Time and TIme Again? or Time Again?

I think that's what it was called.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. Time and Again

Only the time traveler doesn't goes back to the 1880s in search of a better life but as part of a secret government experiment.

Fantastic book from Jack Finney, better known for The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I can just imagine the research that went into imagining how a 1970s person would react to landing in the 1880s.

[tigereye]

23. I loved that book!

:hi:

[msedano]

24. Pastwatch: Redemption of Christopher Columbus may be on point...

Orson Scott Card's fantasy of 24th century Americans--the continent has become universally mestizo--who want to travel back to 1492 and prevent Colón from enslaving their ancestors and mucking up America as badly as it's become. They pull it off. Then reverse it, as the novel ends, a mightly fleet of Tlaxcala warships sails into Lisbon bringing Pax Americana to the 1500s.

mvs

[Lokijohn]

25. Behold the Man - Michael Moorcock

Events were completely different than the expectations.

[Lokijohn]

26. And how could I forget

'A Little Something for Us Tempunauts' - one of Philip K. Dick's last short stories. Great!